Goose and Hawk
Yesterday I finally acquired my Hawaiian name: Ka’iolama. It’s not unusual for people taking Hawaiian language classes to be given Hawaiian names by their kumu (teacher) but I during my first semester of Hawaiian I never asked for one. There were lots of reasons why: I had just finished getting “my Chinese name”:http://alex.golub.name/log/2005/06/22/request-for-comments/ (which ended [...]